Characters / Pokémon Reborn: Players and Rivals

Pokémon Reborn Main Character Index
Player and Rivals | Reborn League | Team Meteor | Others | Postgame Characters

Player Character

The Protagonist

Vero Espenson/Alice Winthrop/Kuro Lengile/Lucia Anahera/Ari Allaway/Decibel (No Last Name Given)

The player character, who arrives in Reborn City on a train and narrowly avoids being killed in a terrorist attack. After receiving their first Pokemon from Ame, they set out to defeat the Reborn League while, by a series of coincidences, getting themselves involved in the conflict with Team Meteor.

Unlike other Pokemon games, you have two appearances for each gender available at creation, as well the option to play a gender-neutral character. The males are Vero and Kuro, the females are Alice and Lucia, and the non-binaries are Ari and Decibel.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: It's perfectly possible to agree to Fern's demands that you Kneel Before Zod if it means being freed from the Nuzleaf trap.
• Ambiguously Brown: Lucia, Ari, and Kuro, particularly Kuro.
• Ambiguous Gender: The player can identify themselves as any gender of their choosing regardless of the avatar they’re playing as.
• Anti-Hero: Fittingly, considering the game. You can do some pretty shady things, such as joining a gang and stealing Pokémon, but are still a good guy overall.
• Ambiguous Situation: Lin claims that the player was another one of her "dolls", like the Lin in Team Meteor - but it's made clear by the end of the postgame that the player is by no means under her control and can act without her input, so whether this was actually the case at some point, or Lin was just mistaken/delusional due to the power she gained messing with her head is left up in the air.
• Badass Bystander: They usually end up fighting Meteor whenever someone important spots them, asks them to help, and gets them permission to go to the appropriate ward.

• Cowboy Cop: If they become an honorary member of the police force, they tend to act like this, as advancing the plot sometimes requires the breaking of rules to do good (like rescuing Heather).
• Curb-Stomp Battle: You will probably be on the receiving end of this at least once over the course of the game, and you are the one giving these out in the Glass Workshop.

• The Dreaded: Your win streak has become infamous among Team Meteor by Episode 18, and pretty much every Mook among them acknowledges they have no chance against you in a straight fight. See the following quotes for some highlights.
  Really, what was she expecting? (after losing a fight with you)
  Not only are you not a Glaceon, you are the singular last thing I wanted to see when opening that door.
  Glass breaks and you appear yet again. Just like my nightmares. […] The nightmare thing was a joke, just by the way. Mostly.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Alice.
• Even the Guys Want Him / Even the Girls Want Her: If someone hits on one of them, they do so regardless of gender.
• Friend To All 'Mons: Gaining the event 'mons requires being this. For example, you can jump in and save a Pachirisu (or Zigzagoon) from a group of boys about to throw it in the water, at which point it joins you out of gratitude.
• Guile Hero: Several times, you have to make clever use of the environment around you to succeed in your current goal, making them this.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Though they do have Canon Names.

• Immune to Fate: The fortune teller can't see their fate at all, and what they do see seems to be a What If? you-never-came scenario.
• MacGuffin Delivery Service: You don't have the best track record of keeping the four "Seal" jewelry pieces safe. Played with after the first fight with Lin — instead of stealing the keys from you, she has a PULSE-Abra teleport both you and her — keys included — to the Citae d'Astra's main door so that it will open for her. You fight her again shortly afterwards.
• Messianic Archetype: Implied, given Anna sees light surrounding you when you first meet her, and your actions have an overwhelmingly positive impact on Reborn City.
• My God, What Have I Done?: For someone who never talks and whose personality is purely defined by the player, they still seem to have this reaction when they inadvertently drive Corey to suicide. Also, when Shelly says "It's not like reading diaries ever really got anyone in trouble" in Ametrine City (after you potentially doing just that caused Amaria to try to kill herself), your character looks the other direction for several seconds.
• Mysterious Past: Where they come from or why they were on the train is never explained, and their parents never appear in-game. Heck, it's not even clear that they do have parents. According to Lin, the player is just another of her "dolls", like the adult Lin in Team Meteor. However, by the end of her postgame route, the player is acting without her prompting and behaving in ways she doesn't understand.
• One-Man Army: If they join one of the gangs, they quickly become The Dragon thanks to how they wipe the floor with the other gang's grunts. They also assault the orphanage with only two other people and trounce most everyone there. And then there's the trail of defeated Meteor members left in their wake whenever they investigate Meteor's goings-on... And of course, they endure the infamous 6vs30 at Glass Workstation.
• The Reliable One: Judging by how often they get handed a Pokémon and told to take care of it or get enlisted to fight Meteor, most people accurately peg them as this.
• Spanner in the Works: Frequently for Team Meteor.
• Supporting Protagonist: Zig-zagged in an interesting manner. They're a decent part of the battle against Team Meteor, but they are by no means the only person fighting Team Meteor - the rest of their rivals, the Gym Leaders, and the Elite Four are also fighting Team Meteor.
• Took a Level in Badass: Necessary to survive the Reborn region.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Their actions have accidentally caused some pretty bad results: completing the 'find all the police officers' task in time ends with Corey being unmasked. Reading Titania's diary led to Amaria finding out that Titania didn't love her, causing her suicide attempt. And destroying the PULSE Magnezone tore ZEL apart, leading to Zero's mental breakdown.
• Vague Age: They look like they're in their late teens, but it's really hard to tell.
  • The fact that they aren't sent to the resident Orphanage of Fear upon arriving in Reborn City suggests that they're at least legal.
  • In addition, their train ticket, seen when starting a new save file, says “Adult”.

Rivals

Victoria Marlow

Apprentice Victoria/Victoria Marlow

"As soon as I heard, I had to go see if I could help!"

The apprentice of Kiki, who starts the Reborn League at the same time as the player and becomes their rival.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: Cal asks her if Kiki would want her to kill Solaris. Victoria can't answer him, and finally gives in.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Has several double battles with the PC.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Her theme.
• Berserk Button: After Kiki's death, Team Meteor agents mentioning her name is enough to enrage Victoria.
• Big Sister Instinct: Develops one for Shelly after the latter witnesses Corey's suicide.
• Cannot Spit It Out: She's been in love with Cal for a while, but can't muster up the courage to tell him.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Prior to Episode 17, unlike your other rivals, the Grass and Poison type specialists Fern and Cain, she takes much longer to train any Pokemon that are not part Fighting type. After, just like the other two, she never sticks strictly to Fighting types. Her starter isn't even of her alleged specialty type at any point in its evolutionary line.
• Damsel out of Distress: She gets kidnapped by Aster and Eclipse at one point. When you reach them, she does not stand by passively, instead teaming up with you for a double battle.
• Determinator: She can be beaten and broken, but she will not give up.
• Honor Before Reason: Victoria is prone to well-intentioned but foolish actions, such as challenging you to stop you from challenging Kiki, even though you need to defeat Kiki to get the Strength HM and save a bunch of children.
• Incompatible Orientation: With Cal- he's gay.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Rushing to attack Team Meteor caused her to get captured.
• Love Hurts: Cal is working for Meteor, and his actions indirectly get her mother figure killed. She can't even look at him after finding out.
• Mission Control: After Ame dies at Lin's hands, Victoria takes over as the advice-giver for you when you go to the gyms alongside Adrienn.
• Must Have Caffeine: The desk under the Grand Hall that's implied to be hers is littered with coffee mugs.
• Nice Girl: While she has her limits, she's still very kindhearted.
  • She's partially Took a Level in Jerkass after Kiki is killed, however.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If she'd actually let Cal explain that he'd sabotaged the PULSE machine when it was installed, things could have gone a lot better between them.
• Parental Substitute: Kiki is this to her, and her void-self implies that she wanted to be like her. Or at least, the person she thought Kiki was.
• Put on a Bus: As of Episode 15, she’s barely present in the story after Kiki’s death, beyond The Cameo when you’re going down the waterfall to the Water Treatment Plant.
  • The Bus Came Back: In Episode 16, she returns to the main cast, with a huge role in helping you storm Devon Corp and the resulting incident with Team Meteor.
• Signature Mon: Gallade and, prior to Episode 17, Emboar. After, the latter's replaced by Incineroar.
• Silk Hiding Steel
• Small Steps Hero: Deconstructed. Victoria's attempt to do good immediately, without considering the long-term consequences, end up being more of an hindrance than anything.
• Survivor's Guilt: Victoria turns out to have been guilt-ridden over Kiki’s death when she reappears. Her void-self even introduces herself to you as Kiki.
  “Why did I have to be the one to live?!”

Cain LaRue

Pretty Boy Cain/Cain LaRue

"Heyyyy, you're cute!"

One of the player's rivals. Cain is a somewhat effiminate young lad who tries to help out whenever he can.

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• Agent Peacock: He wears eyeliner, a fishnet shirt, paints his nails, and is just as badass as everyone else in Reborn.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • After Heather's father commits suicide, Cain spends a fair amount of time reaching out and trying to be comforting to her, and is fairly protective of her from then on.
  • While he’s actually the little brother, he also has this with his sister Aya.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In Episode 18, he and Shelly are mind-controlled by the PULSE Hypno and forced to fight the player 2 on 1.
• Cain and Abel: Subverted with him and his older sister Aya. While at first it seems that Cain ran away due to how his family treated him after he came out as pansexual, it’s shown when you meet her that she feels very guilty about it.
• Camp Gay: While he's actually pan, he clearly fits many of the stereotypes.
• Crippling Overspecialization:
  • Averted prior to Episode 17, at first by accident due to adopting a Popplio early in the game, eventually intentionally. Before taking on Psychic gym leader Radomus, Cain decides to supplement his usual Poison types with a couple of mons that cover their weaknesses.
  • By Episode 17, he never sticks strictly to Poison types.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He volunteers to hold off half a dozen orderlies at the orphanage. When you're done running around doing your bit, you head back to find that he's single-handedly pushed them into a corner. Also, before he came out as pansexual and left his mother and sister, he was the Poison Reserve Gym Leader. And his old team, now with his sister Aya, is fairly high in the running for being That One Boss even by Reborn Gym Leader standards.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: He admits in the void that even though he ran away from home, the only place he ever ran was "in circles."
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: His trainer title is even “Pretty Boy”!
• Meaningful Name: Presumably as in Cain and Abel. It becomes more meaningful when you realize that he has a little in common with the original Cain from the Bible, being the younger brother who ran away from home (though he didn't kill his sibling).
• Mundane Solution: When a Team Meteor Grunt bars his way at Pyrous Mountain, refusing to move or send out his Pokemon, Cain just has his Nidoking push him down a ledge (don’t worry, the grunt survived).
• One-Man Army: See Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass to learn exactly how.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He feels this way at Radomus’s castle after Radomus (unsuccessfully) brainwashed El/Elias and took the Amethyst Pendant. While nobody’s arguing that El didn't deserve it, he’s understandably unnerved, even lampshading it.
  Cain: I'm really kind of not comfortable with this… And I’m normally comfortable with a lot of things most people aren’t comfortable with...
• Poisonous Person: He was the former Poison Reserve Gym Leader.
• The Runaway: Ran away from home because his mother didn't approve of his sexuality.
• Sad Clown: He was pretty hurt by his family's rejection, but covers it up with jokes and innuendo.
  "But hey, everyone's a little bit broken, right? And some pieces just don't fit together."
• Shout-Out: After he’s rescued from El/Elias, he mentions he’s “never gonna be the very best, like no one ever was” at this rate.
• Signature Mon: Nidoking and, prior to Episode 17, Samurott. The latter gets replaced by Primarina after it.
• That Came Out Wrong: He has a habit of spouting out innuendos, intentionally or not.
• That Reminds Me of a Song: Has a tendency to break into song occasionally.
• The Tease: Flirts with anyone, regardless of gender. But mainly flirts with you.
• Uncertain Doom: As of the end of Episode 18, he's stuck in the void along with Luna and Samson/Ciel.

Fern Sevilla

Swag Jockey Fern/Fern Sevilla

"Later, loser!"

The player's other, other rival. Even in the world of Reborn, he stands out for being just so...unpleasant.

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• Alpha Bitch: Male version. And yes, he is a male.
• Always Second Best: He's this to both you and his sister.
• Armor-Piercing Question: To Florinia at Fiore Manor/Amaria's house, if you defeated Solaris at Pyrous Mountain.
  Fern: You really are dead inside. You really are just a stupid robot now.
  Florinia: Incorrect.
  Fern: Isn’t that what you wanted to be?!
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He does, deep down, care for Florinia.
• Black Shirt: Guess who joins Team Meteor when he decides they're the winning side?
• Character Development: He slowly comes to terms with his inferiority complex and anger over the postgame. It culminates when he saves you from a Mewtwo and gets Taken for Granite for it.

• Dude, Where's My Respect?: A big part of his bitterness comes from the fact that nobody is willing to give him any respect or credit.
• Entitled Bastard: Believes that by siding with Team Meteor, when they rule the world, he will be in his “rightful place at the top.”
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Julia sets the first Team Meteor base to blow, he asks what she did. Her response is “Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-“
  Fern: “Oh shit! Let’s move!”
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: In your first encounter with him and the subsequent raid of a Team Meteor base, he could be considered to be a mostly decent person, if a bit of a Jerkass. That illusion fades fast in your later encounters with him. He grows a heart in the postgame, though.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: He was apparently treated as The Unfavorite by his parents in favor of Florinia, and she wasn't close to him herself, and nobody in the Onyx Trainer's School, even his flunkies, seems to genuinely like him (and he's even less popular outside of it). However, when he brings this up on Victory Road, Florinia responds that he still joined a group of terrorists for himself.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: No one in Reborn, not even his sister, likes him that much, and he’s only tolerated because of his skill, mostly. According to Taka, after he joins Team Meteor, even they can't stand having him around.
• Gender-Blender Name: Fern doesn't seem like it's a boy's name, does it?
• Green Thumb: His specialty is Grass-types, and he's the Grass Reserve Leader at least, until he joins Team Meteor. He probably got fired after that.
• Hate Sink: Fern's only purpose in-game is to be an annoying thorn at your side. He even tries to leave you trapped in a cage to starve if you don’t beg him to let you out. Averted in the postgame, though. He's — slowly — becoming a better person there.
• I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Fern cites this trope as his reason for joining Team Meteor.
• I Have No Son!: Actually "I Have No Sister", but after the Armor-Piercing Question above, he leaves the Manor, saying that he doesn't have a sister anymore. Even Solaris seems a bit unnerved by this exchange, and he was previously talking about "remedying" his own son Taka for disloyalty/incompetence!
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: It's implied by his void-self in Episode 18 that his Small Name, Big Ego tendencies are because he views himself as inferior to his sister.
  • It's fully confirmed in the postgame.
• Insufferable Genius: He's a mix of this and Small Name, Big Ego. He's genuinely talented, but not as much as he thinks.
• It's All About Me: He very badly wants it to be. When it isn't, he insists that it has to be anyway.
• Jerkass: The guy makes Silver look pleasant.
• Kneel Before Zod: Tries to force the player character to "get on all fours and beg like a dog" if they want to be let out of the Nuzleaf cage. If they refuse, he leaves them there to starve to death.
• Never My Fault: Fern absolutely refuses to admit his own mistakes. Whenever he loses, it's because his opponent cheated or got lucky. When he attacks his own sister at Titania's hideout, it's her fault for not joining Team Meteor along with him.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When he orders the Trainers at the Trainer’s School to prevent you from fighting Florinia and to stall you, all they really accomplish is to give your team a nice source of experience to ensure you can fight her evenly.
• The Poorly Chosen One: According to a fortune-teller who does a reading for you, there was a previous timeline where Fern is the hero rather than you. Except he ultimately failed, and Anna made a wish that changed the timeline to the one we're currently in.
• Poor Communication Kills: Downplayed example early in the game; when Julia and Florinia tell him to meet them at the Abandoned Plant in the Peridot Ward, they don’t specify which one of the two they’re talking about.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Under certain circumstances, he will give his sister Florinia a speech about how she uses her lack of emotion as a shield to avoid confronting her issues, calling her a coward and an unfeeling robot. And he isn't exactly wrong.
• The Resenter: Over the course of the game, Fern comes to utterly loathe the player. He says it's because the player is a scumbag who only got where they are through cheating and good luck; it's patently obvious that he just hates that the player got to be the hero and he didn't.
• The Rival: Your primary one, taking the 'jerkass' role.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He isn't too unpleasant when you first meet him, but after you run into him in the Onyx Trainer's School, that first impression fades fast.
• Signature Mon: Roserade and, prior to Episode 17, Serperior. After, it's replaced by Decidueye.
• Smug Snake: He loses again and again to the player, and he remains more arrogant than Blue and Silver combined.
• Sore Loser: Is he ever. Yet he always brushes off your victories against him where any other rival would at least start resenting you.
• Worthy Opponent: Inverted: He thinks you’re not good enough to face him or his sister Florinia, and tries to prevent you from facing her and earning the Canopy Badge by blocking off the building. It's implied by his void-self much later that this act is actually because of a Inferiority Superiority Complex, and it/him says that "You're worthy (to face Florinia). And I never was."

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